{197} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 174.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26. 1853 [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Mary Stuart's Chair, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 197 Inedited Letter of Warren Hastings 198 Mediæval Emblems of the Passion, by Norris Deck 199 Bookselling in Calcutta 199 FOLK LORE:--Subterranean Bells--Old Weather Proverb-- Primrosen--Harvest Home Song 200 Inedited Poem on Chaucer 201 MINOR NOTES:--"Le Balafré"--Macpherson's "Ossian"--Epitaph from Tichfield--"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!"--Weight of American Revolutionary Officers--The Patronymic "Mac"--Erroneous Forms of Speech--Hexameters from Udimore Register--Dr. Johnson--Borrowed Thoughts--Suggested Reprints 201 QUERIES:-- Rigby Correspondence 203 Heraldic Queries 203 On a Passage in Acts xv. 23., by J. Sansom 204 MINOR QUERIES:--Belatucadrus--Surname of Allan--Arms of Owen Glendower--Tenent and Tenet--"I hear a lion," &c.--"The Exercist Day" at Leicester--Ecclus. xlvi. 20.--Etymology of Burrow--Alexander Adamson-- Psalmanazar--Coleridge's "Christabel"--Beaten to a Mummy--Hanover Rats--Pallant--Curious Fact in Natural Philosophy--Drying up of the Red Sea--Joan d'Arc--Diary of Thomas Earl, &c. 205 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Game of the Whetstone-- Meals--Haughmond Abbey, Salop--"As flies to wanton boys"--Quotation wanted--Thomas Stanley, Bishop of Man 208 REPLIES:-- Old Satchels 209 Statue of St. Peter 210 Lord Clarendon and the Tubwoman 211 Discovery of Planets, by Henry Walter 211 Story of Genoveva 212 Ancient Dutch Allegorical Picture, by Dr. J. H. Todd 213 The "Percy Anecdotes," by John Timbs 214 Lady Nevill's Music-book: Mode of reading the ancient Virginal Music, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 214 Scarfs worn by Clergymen, by Rev. John Jebb 215 Unanswered Queries regarding Shakspeare, by J. Payne Collier 216 The Passamezzo Galliard, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 216